Patch 162 Notes

[Thanatos]

[BALANCING CHANGES]
- Bonus System for weapons changed:
- HighTech + 2 % (was 5.0)
- Rare + 7.5 %
- Epic + 8.0 % (was 8.5)
- WoC + 8.0 % (was 10.0)

-> Weapons with Epic- or WoC-status are rebalanced.
-> LowTech-weapons receive an extra 3% to nearly close the gap with HighTech-weapons.
-> Melee-weapons now have the 5% penalty removed. The range penalty is enough disadvantage for that category.
-> Melee-weapons receive a 7.5% bonus to compensate for missing ammo-mods.
-> APU combat keeps the 16% bonus for their general frequency reduction until we fix this.
-> APU combat receives a 4% bonus to compensate for the missing high-tech variations. (lowtech-correction and half of hightech bonus).
-> APU combat receives a 7.5% bonus to compensate for the missing ammo mods.

[PSI]
- Added more tolerance for the line of sight verification of PSI modules
- Fixed a bug involving the saving of temporary effects (i.e. Shields) - selfcast PPU shields should now have their intended strength after zoning.

[COMBATRANK]
- Adjusted the calculations for the different classes to bring them closer together.
- Verification of calculations to prevent ranks of zero.

[HACKNET]
- Fixed a bug that impeded shield or heal in selfcast.
- Line of sight will work better in the Hacknet.
- Reduced the range of Hacknet NPCs (10%) as well as their aggro range.

[MISC]
- Fixed a bug that caused problems with XP in combat vehicles.
- The missing drug effect from nanite activity is back.
- Reduced the range of NPC weapons. This only applies to NPCs that uses normal weapons.
- Fixed the armor values of Genotoxic NPCs. They now only have full protection against fire and poison damage.
- Adjusted the collision verifications, some objects provided more cover than they should have.

[CONTENT]
- Adjusted the "The Hunt for Crossbow" mission. The mission is now repeatable and, like in other WOC missions, the reward is handed out in artifact quality with at least 3 slots.
- Adjusted the "Regants Legacy" mission. Like in other WOC missions, both rewards are now handed out in artifact quality with at least 3 slots.
- Adjusted several NPCs to prevent soullight and sympathy abuse.

[jini]

Nice patch
Teh drooooooones

[unreal]

Nice patch. Though this finalizes my statement that my 5 slot Ultimated Beretta is now completely and utterly useless.

PS. I was wondering when this was going to be posted, because the shutdown timer started way before the thread was created.

[Tickles]

awesome now thats a good patch. does this mean that tangent epic is fixed?

[Archy]

No signs of spiderbot rank / dmg / reward balancing ?

[Ru-Just-RU]

Nice patch

but one question, dose KK fix stealth problems with Genotoxic mobs, or it`s a normal ??

[Brammers]

Nice to see the PPU buffs zoning bug fixed!

Some interesting balance changes there.

[Dromidas]

- HighTech + 2 % (was 5.0)
- Rare + 7.5 %

So does this mean a rare high-tech gun will have an overall boost of +4.5%(7.5-3.0) ish?

/me whispers sweet nothings to his silent hunter.

[Napalm82]

What a great patch, this eliminates the problems i had (As i for one dont have a problem with the PvE)

Great, now i just need the servers to come back so i can get ready for the event tormorow.

- Napalm

[Curvedblade]

awsome to see the ppu shields zoning bug fixed!

[Praetorian]

Alright, so this is what i ment... You did use the last couple of weeks for something productive, and patch 161 was just a tease

[rob444]

Nice patch and it was quickly done after the previous one. Fixed really important stuff too. Good work Reakktor, 5/5!

[[F6]Knight]

nice to see the boost to low tech weapons and melee
and finaly a fix for the juggernaut xbow pistol
too bad i m stuck with a crappy quality 1 slotter ... guess i ll have to make some time to redo that mission and get a nice one

[Bredahl]

Very nice patch!

Still need to nerf the high tl drones though.. and alot of other stuff is also still needed, but its a very nice patch..

This actually made me happy (patch 161 made me a bit angry..)

[SorkZmok]

So does this mean a rare high-tech gun will have an overall boost of +4.5%(7.5-3.0) ish?

/me whispers sweet nothings to his silent hunter.

I guess it means the rare bonus was 7.5 and still is the same, nothing changed there.

But a 3% bonus reduction to hightech guns should also affect hightech rares and woc guns. I think. Though it might be that those boni do not stack at all.

Heh, are there actually hightech woc guns?

/edit
And not to forget, the patch notes look nice. Just drones are missing there.